Years of Life Lost to Drug Overdose Among Black Female Individuals in the US, 2015-2021

Rebecca Arden Harris; David S Mandell

doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.4194

Years of Life Lost to Drug Overdose Among Black Female Individuals in the US, 2015-2021

JAMA Psychiatry. 2023 Mar 1;80(3):276-277. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.4194.

Authors

Rebecca Arden Harris^{1

2}, David S Mandell^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
² Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study calculates years of life lost to drug overdose in non-Hispanic Black female individuals and describes the changes in years of life lost that have occurred during the current overdose crisis.

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid*
Black or African American
Drug Overdose* / mortality
Female
Humans
United States

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

K23 DA054157/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States